[ale] gopher

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

wow,
back in the early 90's I used to bypass the AT&T web block by using gopher ..
now:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/29/2141254/All-of-Gopherspace-Available-For-Download?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:
+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)

An anonymous reader writes
"Cory Doctorow tells us that '[i]n 2007, John Goerzen scraped every gopher 
site he could find (gopher was a menu-driven text-only precursor to the Web; 
I got my first online gig programming gopher sites). He saved 780,000 
documents, totalling 40GB. Today, most of this is offline, so he's making the 
entire archive available as a .torrent file; the compressed data is only 
15GB. Wanna host the entire history of a medium? Here's your chance!' Get 
yourself a piece of pre-Internet history (torrent)."

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